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They have sold a billion albums worldwide, have a world record FIFTEEN number one albums and have been hailed as the greatest band of all time. Now engineers at Abbey Road Studios are digitally remastering all of the Beatles' original albums which are to be re-released in September. This...

British police have, in recent years, had a bit of a reputation for being trigger happy and going after, and killing, the wrong person. The most notorious example of that occurred on 21st July 2005, two weeks after the terrorist attacks in London which killed 52 people, when cops from the...

BBC comedy series Red Dwarf, which originally ran from 1988-1999, returns to our screens this month with three special episodes. The first of those episodes is being aired on Dave (channel 19) on Fiday. The series is set around three million years in the future, and the main characters are...

The Americans may be proud of the seeming popularity of their new President as he gallavants round the world from one country to the next. But he is NOT the world's greatest Head of State. That honour must undoubtedly go to Queen Elizabeth II. While Obama struck awe in most of the people he...

Thanks to its long, violent and bloody history, England is awash with battlefields, from the Roman invasion to the Jacobite Rebellions of the 1710s and 1740s. It is thought there could be as many as 450 battlefields in England (and more throughout the UK as a whole), which is not bad for a small...

A new armour exhibition at the Tower of London shows just how fat King Henry VIII became. Thanks partly to his feasting on huge banquets during his 38 year reign (1509-1547), Henry VIII ballooned in size over the years. The monarch enjoyed banquets so much he extended the kitchen of Hampton...

There is to be a prequel of classic BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses. Only Fools and Horses, which ran from 1981 - 2003, was all about Derek "Del Boy" Trotter who lives in a flat in Peckham, London with his younger brother Rodney and his grandfather (later, grandfather dies and their...

Lovestruck Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi embarrassed himself, and the Italian nation, during the recent G20 summit in London. During a photoshoot in Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, while the 18 Prime Ministers and Presidents, one Chancellor and one King had their photo taken with...

Forty horses yesterday ran the Grand National in Liverpool, the world's biggest, most famous and most valuable horse race. Despite coming under attack from various animal rights groups for its high rate of horse fatalities, the race is as popular as ever before. The race is 4 miles 4 furlongs...

It's that time of year again for one of the oldest sporting fixtures in the British sporting calendar. Today was the 155th University Boat Race between the dark blues of Oxford and the light blues of Cambridge, and it was watched by a crowd of over 250,000. It was Oxford who were the victors...

A group of drunken students thought it would be a good idea to steal a model triceratops from a local museum. The gang, who had been out celebrating the end of their course, tried to take the dinosaur to a road to place it in the middle of a roundabout, in Dorchester, Dorset. It took ten of...

Former RAF member Henry Allingham, 112, is not only Britain's oldest man and Europe's oldest, he's also the oldest British man in HISTORY. Mr Allingham turned 112 years and 296 days today, surpassing Welshman John Evans who died in 1990 aged 112 years and 295 days. He is one of only two...

It may have been just a meaningless friendly, but a crowd of over 85,000 packed into Wembley Stadium in London last night to watch in-form England's game against Slovakia, a large number that would probably never be matched anywhere else in Europe for just a friendly. England dazzled in their...

Imagine your parents were cruel enough to give you silly names, so that you were called Constance Smell, Anice Bottom, Seymour Bust, Boadicea Basher or Norman Conquest. Imagine the embarassement when you have to tell somebody your name, or the bullying and name-calling inflicted on you by your...

If nowadays you feel nervous about having surgery or even just going to the dentist, then spare a thought for those souls who had to undergo treatment in days of yore. A new exhibition from the Science Museum in London brings to life medicine's dark past. More than 2,500 objects are on display...

Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland, in the north east of England, is one of the finest English stately homes. It was built between 1718 and 1728 by Sir John Vanbrugh for Admiral George Delaval. Vanbrugh also built Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill (the 1st Duke of...

It has been revealed that British scientist Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, spent more money on shoes than books whilst at university. He even paid people to carry out tasks such as stoking his fire and polishing his fancy new footwear. Darwin's college bills amounted to...

In 1906, a water-powered supercar - called the Stanley Rocket - achieved an astonishing (at that time) record speed of 127.659mph in Florida. That made it the fastest car in the world at the time. But now a British team is hoping to break that 103 year old steam land record. Leading the...

Many people may consider England footballers to be heroes (even though they haven't won a major trophy since 1966), but yesterday John Terry, Rio Ferdinand, Steven Gerrard and Co met some REAL heroes. John Terry’s basic pay at Chelsea is £7.3million a year. Most of these servicemen will earn...

Here is the picture of Doctor Who's latest nemesis - a Trivatore. The Trivatores are an alien species who have heads like those of flies. They will first appear in the new Easter special Planet of the Dead. The show's producers hope the Trivatores become as iconic as the Daleks and the...